Tile from middle of room, or middle of door?

[Paul17088071]

Hi all.

I am about to start my first ever tiling job. I’m laying some ceramic floor tiles in my toilet room.

I have measured up the middle of the room ready to start laying my first tile (black line below) however I’m wondering if it would be better to centralise the first tile to the middle of the doorway instead. What are your thoughts on this?

Many thanks

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

If it were me, I'd draw up a (to scale) plan of the room then draw up a (to scale) tile grid on a bit of tracing paper and overlay it to see the best option.

 

[pcaouolte]

Lay out a row of tiles, with spacers in between them, on the floor in each direction to form a cross shape. Adjust the starting position in both directions so that you don't get any small slivers of tile near any wall or the door.

 

[Notch7]

If it were me, I'd draw up a (to scale) plan of the room then draw up a (to scale) tile grid and overlay it to see the best option.

CAD is jolly handy for tile layouts, I spent about 15mins working out my bathroom

obv not worth the steep learning curve required if its not something you use already

 

[Paul17088071]

Thanks for your advice everyone, I’ll do this

 

[stevie888]

Set them out dry as said above. Get SWMBO to decide what she wants. Confirm in writing. Lay tiles quick before she changes her mind.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Sketchup is dead easy and free, apart from creating an account.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Also https://www.tileplanner.com/en/maticad/

 

[Northman]

I make a scale plan on a pad of gridded graph paper, then print a grid scaled to the tiles on a piece of inkjet acetate film. Then just slide the acetate over your paper plan until happy with the position.

 

[Paul17088071]

Thanks for the advice.

My floor tiles are 330mm x 330mm, will a 2mm grout line be okay for this, as I’m planning on getting the tile levelling system which comes with the 2mm spacers.

Thanks

 

[ree]

OP,
Poster #3 more or less has the right idea but you are working in a narrow, small room with a doorway.
Dont work from your pencil line: using spacers dry lay from the centre of the door opening across to the RH wall - then dry lay up and down to form the cross.
Dry lay is by far the quickest & most accurate method for most domestic tiling setting out.
As poster #3 suggests, adjust the dry lay tiles to avoid slivers - and leave expansion gaps at all abutments.
Consider what kind of threshold bar you will use - & what kind of skirting?
And its always best practice to tile under WC pans & pedestals & vanities.
2mm spacers are very tight - & in that area theres no need for a levelling system.

 

[RandomGrinch]

I've found with tiles like the OPs,

a tight spacer is needed to get the pattern to match effectively.
Personally, I think I would centralise it to the doorway.

 

[Paul17088071]

OP,
Poster #3 more or less has the right idea but you are working in a narrow, small room with a doorway.
Dont work from your pencil line: using spacers dry lay from the centre of the door opening across to the RH wall - then dry lay up and down to form the cross.
Dry lay is by far the quickest & most accurate method for most domestic tiling setting out.
As poster #3 suggests, adjust the dry lay tiles to avoid slivers - and leave expansion gaps at all abutments.
Consider what kind of threshold bar you will use - & what kind of skirting?
And its always best practice to tile under WC pans & pedestals & vanities.
2mm spacers are very tight - & in that area theres no need for a levelling system.

Great advice, thank you very much.

As the post beneath this suggested, I have the exact tiles he has put up a picture of, is this easy enough to match up the pattern with 3mm spacers? After research I decided to buy these instead of the 2mm

Thanks

 

[Paul17088071]

Hi all

I am going through a dry lay of the tiles, just a quick question.

I ideally want a narrow threshold bar, so setting up the middle tile with the middle of the doorway, every other tile won’t match up to the pattern unless I make the cuts around the door frame first, is this what is recommended?

Otherwise, I’ve got the measurements correct across the width of the room, with the same distance between the end tile and the wall at each end of the room.

On the attached picture where the laser line is, I’m thinking of cutting the one tile to fit a large piece against the back wall, or would you suggest I overlap the first tile across where the threshold bar will be to get the same size cut on the first and last tile on the laser level?

Many thanks

 

[Paul17088071]

Also another set up I’ve tinkered with, how does this look?

Looking at the attached picture, it leaves:

Red sections: 11cm gap tile to wall
Blue section: 15.5cm gap tile to LVT

The tile dimensions are 33cm x 33cm

Thanks